Poetry
Los pobres
Not translated into English
Roberto Sosa · 1969
Synopsis
Poems about the poor of Yoro and Tegucigalpa, their sorrows and their lost dreams, and about those who oppress them together with their accomplices. The poems pass through streets, courts, village processions and hospital wards; “La casa de la justicia” shows a corrupt courthouse, and another poem remembers the father. Love, solitude, death and oblivion also run through the collection.
Context
The collection appeared in Madrid in 1969 from Rialp, in forty-seven pages, in the series of the prize he had just won. Spanish critics praise a poetry of denunciation that remains lyrical, tender and descriptive, without declaimed anger. It reached its eighth edition in Tegucigalpa in 1993; Seghers published a French translation in Paris in 1977, following another collection by the author, in a Unesco series, and the title poem was translated into English in 2018.
Who it is for
A slim collection in Spanish, in a simple language; it can also be read in French, in the Seghers edition.
Prizes and reception
Adonais Prize 1968, awarded unanimously; regarded as the book that divides Honduran poetry into two eras.
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